2nd March

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1484 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1807 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1983 – Compact Discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1991 – Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2012 – A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.

Births
1824 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1884)
1900 – Kurt Weill, German-American composer (d. 1950) “Threepenny Opera” with “Mack the Knife and married to Lotte Lenya
1904 – Dr. Seuss, American author, poet, and illustrator (d. 1991)
1919 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet lawyer and politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate
1935 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor and director (d. 2001)
1941 – Jon Finch, English actor (d. 2012)
1950 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (d. 1983)
1962 – Jon Bon Jovi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Bon Jovi)
1968 – Daniel Craig, English actor
1977 – Andrew Strauss, English cricketer

Deaths
1791 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (b. 1703)
1797 – Horace Walpole, English historian and politician (b. 1717) - coined the phrase "serendipity"
1930 – D. H. Lawrence, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1885)
1939 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist (b. 1874)
1987 – Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)
1999 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (The Lana Sisters and The Springfields) (b. 1939)

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